all the manpower, industry and around 3.9 mio loses....i doubt if the russian player can recover from that.

The manpower + loses he can easly recover from possibly even the industry, but the killer is the AP crunch. Looks to be atleast 800 ap points thats a set back of 16 turns that can not be made up for. Thats 80 less rifle divisions at the start of the 1942 summer, russian lines will be paper thin and not many units will be filled out. No one can recover from that, because it sets back SHC 1943 offensive and will make it more then likely GHC can stay on the offensive until the spring 1943 as per my M60 game. This means that GHc can hold the lines static for all the rest of 1943 because of reserve mode and Russian forses will need and extra 16 weeks before it can go over to the offensive with its flanks be covered.

If you have been following my AAR's I try and finish off Leningrad after October to get some AP crunch going. Plus get as many pockets late summer as possible. Pocketing units from turns 15-17 is about as easy as it gets other then the openning turn. Rail heads are at the front and infantry. SHC can't run in south because if they do their blizzard will be several turns behind. In the north and center they can't run because of Moscow or Leningrad.

Pocketing units from 15-17 is a nerf to blizzard offensive and sets up the 42 summer offensive. One does not have to take Leningrad/Moscow or Rostov to get the AP crunch going just be near SHC forses by turn 14.

In fairness, it totally depends on how much you spend on C&C - if he got/gets away with spending minimal APs on C&C then in reality it just doesn't matter that much (not saying losing all those units is good - to be sure, I'd prefer not to lose 80 divisions no matter what the situation, just that the impact can be greater or lesser depending on the SHC play style).

As an example, in my and Pelton's game (without giving away too much) I have to create units even at a higher AP cost just to avoid wasting APs above the 500 cap. That situation won't persist but Bobo may find himself there for a while...

After 6 attacks by russian forses the 7th opens a hole in the german ring.

After much debate GHC desides to with draw from the Moscow area and set up defences for Blizzard. Reclosing the ring around Moscow would not have been that hard but to keep it closed would have been the question.

After having an amazing summer it was just to much of a gamble. I feel I have the upper hand and I would have lost several panzers and several infantry in the coming blizzard.